Please enjoy our latest podcast, the weekly Security Sprint, on Spotify, Apple, as well as other locations accessible via the Spotify for Podcasters link or wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts.
In this week’s Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:
Opening:
- AI in Cybersecurity Defense: Best Practices and Limitations — Gate 15
- FS-ISAC releases advisory on hardening cybersecurity from AI
- Sector Risk Advisory: AI-Enabled Vulnerability Detection & Remediation Perspectives on Third Parties
- Sector Risk Advisory: Preparing the Enterprise for AI-Enabled Vulnerability Discovery
- Executive Overview: Implications of AI-Enabled Vulnerability Detection & Exploitation
- Europe must prevent misuse of Anthropic’s Mythos, Bundesbank chief warns
- FB-ISAO Newsletter V8 Issue 4
Main Topics:
WHCD Attack
- White House Dinner Shooting Suspect’s Family Alerted Police To Threats Minutes Before Attack
- Read White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman Cole Allen’s full anti-Trump manifesto
- WHCD shooting suspect Cole Allen mocked lack of security on every leg of cross-country journey in manifesto: ‘Actually insane’
- Who Are The Wide Awakes? What We Know About Group Tied to Cole Allen
- White House Correspondents’ Dinner gunman ‘assembled long weapon in unsecured room’ before firing near ballroom, volunteer reveals
- Correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect called himself ‘friendly federal assassin’
- White House correspondents’ dinner was not given top security status
- White House correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect reached ballroom staircase
- Trump shooting at correspondents dinner raises security concerns
- Staged conspiracy theories are everywhere following White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
Cyber Resilience
- Cyber Centre warns of sophisticated smishing activity targeting Canadians & Smishing: Protect yourself from SMS attacks – Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
- NCSC: Leave passwords in the past – passkeys are the future – UK National Cyber Security Centre
- Cyber security considerations for passkeys (ITSAP.30.033) — Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
- How NOT to Be Your Adversary’s Best Friend | FIRST CTI 2026 Day 2 – FIRST CTI 2026
- Could your choice of metrics be harming your SOC? – UK National Cyber Security Centre
- NCSC CEO keynote speech, CYBERUK 2026 — UK National Cyber Security Centre
- Vendor diversification (ITSAP.10.006) – Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
FBI: Open Letter to Parents, Guardians, and Caregivers
Quick Hits:
- AI tools are helping mediocre North Korean hackers steal millions – WIRED
- Inside Lazarus: How North Korea Uses AI to Industrialize Attacks on Developers – Expel
- Distinguished ex-cop arrested for ‘mass shooting’ plot to gun down black people at New Orleans festival
- UK warns of Chinese hackers using botnets of hijacked consumer devices to evade detection
- FIRESTARTER Backdoor – CISA
- Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems: Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors – House Committee on Homeland Security. Witnesses include Sam Visner, Chair of the Board of Directors at Space Information Sharing and Analysis Center; and Scott Algeier, Executive Director of the Information Technology-Information Sharing and Analysis Center.
- CISA director pick Sean Plankey withdraws his nomination – CyberScoop
- Treaty Adjacent: Why Tribal Data Sovereignty Matters – LinkedIn
Read more about Gate 15’s full podcast menu at our Podcast page. You can subscribe and enjoy all the Gate 15 Podcasts on Spotify for Podcasters, Apple, Spotify, as well as other locations accessible from the Spotify for Podcasters link. Week-to-week, you can hear and learn more about our all-hazards threats, risks, mitigation and other issues impacting homeland security risk management from our team as well as our regular and special guests. The full podcast menu includes:
- The Security Sprint is our weekly rundown of the week’s notable all-hazards security news, risks and threats and some of the key focus areas for organizations to consider behind the headlines. Gate 15 team members discuss physical security, cybersecurity, natural hazards, health threats and other issues across our environment.
- Nerd Out! Security Panel Discussion, moderated by Dave Pounder, focuses on physical security topics including terrorism, extremism, hostile events, and other pertinent topics.
- The Gate 15 Interview, is a monthly interview between Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour and guests from throughout the homeland security risk management community addressing a wide range of all-hazards topics and issues.
- The Cybersecurity Evangelist, with Jennifer Lyn Walker, is a cybersecurity-focused discussion with Jen and invited guests. This is presently a Gate 15 special podcast and occasionally is updated on our Gate 15 podcast channel.
- Venue Security, The IAVM Podcast Series was a 2024 limited series podcast as Gate 15’s founder and Managing Director, Andy Jabbour hosted a series of short interviews with venue safety and security experts from the International Association of Venue Managers’ (IAVM) Venue Safety and Security Committee (VSSC) and other special guests from the IAVM community.
- The Risk Roundtable, was a monthly discussion among our team and occasional guests exploring the all-hazards threats and risks impacting the United States and internationally. This was suspended in September 2023.
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